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Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (22 children)

The Framework Desktop is powered by an AMD Ryzen AI Max processor, a Radeon 8060S integrated GPU, and between 32GB and 128GB of soldered-in RAM.

The CPU and GPU are one piece of silicon, and they're soldered to the motherboard. The RAM is also soldered down and not upgradeable once you've bought it, setting it apart from nearly every other board Framework sells.

It'd raise an eyebrow if it was a laptop but it's a freakin' desktop. Fuck you framework.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Seriously that's really disappointing. It really seems like investors decides that they needed to "diversify" their offering and they need something with AI now ... Framework was on a good path imo but of course a repairable laptop only goes so far since people can repair it and don't need to replace it every 2 years (or maybe just replace the motherboard) so if you want to grow you need to make more products ...

[–] girsaysdoom 3 points 2 days ago

I agree. We need less soldered RAM designs. I thought repairability was something they appreciated.

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